Beyond the hill there's a garden fair--
My garden of happy hours!"

MARGARET PEDLER.

NOTE:--Musical setting by Margaret Pedler. Published by Edward Schuberth &
Co., 11 East 22nd Street, New York.




THE VISION OF DESIRE

PROLOGUE


_"... It's no use pretending any longer. I can't marry you, I don't suppose
you will ever understand or forgive me. No man would. But try to believe
that I haven't come to this decision hurriedly or without thinking. I seem
to have done nothing but think, lately!_

_"I want you to forget last night, Eliot. We were both a little mad, and
there was moonlight and the scent of roses.... But it's good-bye, all the
same--it must be. Please don't try to see, me again. It could do no good
and would only hurt us both."_

Very deliberately the man read this letter through a second time. At first
reading it had seemed to him incredible, a hallucination. It gave him a
queer feeling of unreality--it was all so impossible, so wildly improbable!